. >> what happened initially was, there was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo. as a consequence, of the video. >> yes. they were killed in a course of a terrorist attack on our embassy freeway. t >> president barack obama: the outrage over the video was used by extremists to see if they could also directly harm u.s. interests. >> chris: i'm asking you personally, not as the committee as a whole, how do youxplain these shifting stories, and the president continuing to talk about the video, after the head of the counterterrorism center says that it was a terror attack. and do you think it had anything to do with politics, in the middle of the presidential campaign. >> i don't think it had anything to do with politics. i do think it had something to do with our assessment. and, you know, my view is very simple and very direct. the minute you know mortars were used, the minute you know rpgs are used, it is either a terrorist attack or it is a military attack. those are the only two things it could be. what is a terrorist? it isn't necessarily all one thing. a terro